Comments on: Dispatch records cloud handling of Albany officer’s crashhttp://blog.timesunion.com/readandreact/539/dispatch-records-cloud-handling-of-albany-officers-crash/
A place to share your thoughts, criticisms and comments.Tue, 24 Dec 2013 01:58:20 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.3By: Samhttp://blog.timesunion.com/readandreact/539/dispatch-records-cloud-handling-of-albany-officers-crash/comment-page-5/#comment-15699
Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:11:02 +0000http://blogs.timesunion.com/readandreact/?p=539#comment-15699Because T=U hnds ‘dirty” also. They benefitted from ghost tickets, too. So did all the media. How many times have anyone seen a media vehicles parked on the sidewalk as they report on a story. You or I can’t park on the sidewalk.
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Sat, 14 Mar 2009 02:17:58 +0000http://blogs.timesunion.com/readandreact/?p=539#comment-15698Here is a link to the most recent story: timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=778663
]]>By: Samhttp://blog.timesunion.com/readandreact/539/dispatch-records-cloud-handling-of-albany-officers-crash/comment-page-5/#comment-15697
Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:16:56 +0000http://blogs.timesunion.com/readandreact/?p=539#comment-15697SEE TODAY’S T-U – McKenna drove an Albany Police SUV to Bethlehem that day and spoke to the Bethlehem PD, but it wasn’t to call them off his friend and former partner McNally (aka Drunk Driver Cop).
Right!!! and I have swamp land in Florida to sell you if you believe that story.

Why isn’t T-U creating new blogs with each article (like they did with the ‘Ghost ticket’ story??

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Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:58:30 +0000http://blogs.timesunion.com/readandreact/?p=539#comment-15652As of mid March 2009, this matter is being further investigated, and as the involvement of an Albany Police officer who was trailing the off-duty schenectady officer into Bethlehem is discovered, Chief Corsi has a no comment response to questions. Apparently, no inquiry into the use of cell phones by those involved is taking place. A Bethlehem Police department employee recently resigned from duty. Why Times Union isn’t creating new blogs with each article points to their potential favoritism.
]]>By: Janhttp://blog.timesunion.com/readandreact/539/dispatch-records-cloud-handling-of-albany-officers-crash/comment-page-5/#comment-15661
Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:35:05 +0000http://blogs.timesunion.com/readandreact/?p=539#comment-15661Why is it that those who make the laws, and those who enforce the laws are the ones who get away with breaking the laws?
]]>By: Nickhttp://blog.timesunion.com/readandreact/539/dispatch-records-cloud-handling-of-albany-officers-crash/comment-page-5/#comment-15641
Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:02:26 +0000http://blogs.timesunion.com/readandreact/?p=539#comment-15641So McBally’s not even going to get the “slap on the wrist.”

Perhaps I wasn’t clear, or maybe you misunderstood. The piece of your post #132 that I lifted, referred generally to “how many other issues.” And so did my response, #134: “how much discipline.”

What I’m saying is that when a civil servant screws up / gets caught and justice is served, we don’t always hear about it. And I’m sure you’ll agree that “issue” doesn’t automatically mean “crime.”

I, too, was a civil servant, for nearly forty years. And I took part in a number of disciplinary actions over those years, so you don’t have a lock on “history” here.

One memorable incident required my testimony at an arbitration hearing against an upper-level state agency employee. When the “issue” first broke, it was plastered across page one of all the NYC newspapers. But the resulting decision (termination) quietly played out internally, and never saw the light of day; i.e. reported in the newspapers. And it all happened over the course of just three or four months.

I don’t think you’re employed by the APD, so I dare say your “history” can’t be all that much different from mine. You may want to rethink your last paragraph.

Being a civil servant myself, I’m not going to buy that one. Once a civil servant is “diciplined”, then you have hearing after hearing at higher and higher levels before the propsed punishment is finally heard by an arbitrator and decided. That process can literally take years…

And the department CANNOT punish him if they CANNOT prove in a court of law he broke the law. The arbitrator would just throw it out since they work under similar rules. If he wasn’t convicted of a DWI or DWAI charge, I’d be surprised if the department even bothered to try to discipline him considering the costs of the appeals and arbitration, which the department would already know up front that they would lose since he wasn’t criminally convicted of squat.

If they suspend him, it’ll be with pay since he hasn’t been convicted of anything yet, and most likely won’t be. And what kind of punishment is that? “Here – drive drunk, don’t get caught, and we’ll give you a 9 month paid vacation”…

That’s reality CP. You have lofty ideas of what SHOULD happen, and I agree that’s how the system SHOULD work. But the reality of the situation is closer to what I’ve said than what you’ve said, and I have history on my side on this one.

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Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:33:52 +0000http://blogs.timesunion.com/readandreact/?p=539#comment-15636#132 says:
“…however we have no idea how many other issues have been covered up without the public even getting wind of it.”

By the same token, nor do you have any idea how much discipline has been meted out internally, “without the public even getting wind of it.”

]]>By: concernedhttp://blog.timesunion.com/readandreact/539/dispatch-records-cloud-handling-of-albany-officers-crash/comment-page-5/#comment-15664
Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:02:51 +0000http://blogs.timesunion.com/readandreact/?p=539#comment-15664It surely will be swept under the rug! Take a close look at today’s article! It appears the cops (no matter what jurisdiction)are going to cover for this guy. Maloney should be under grand Jury investigation for conspiracy with his lack of cooperation with the investigation. I said it before, if he he had known if McNally was a cop, we would have read about some other schmoe getting busted. This is very Mafia-esk, covering each others trails. 99% good? Yeah right…
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